NG Confusion-PART 2

Ok, now let’s do some practice!! We will answer a task together with the following small text, but the way of thinking is the same with any text no matter how long it is. Since in T, F, NG tasks the order of the statements follows the order of the text, you more or less know where to search for the answer. Ok, here we go:

Online gaming is the new addiction of our modern times that targets mainly teenage boys. Ask 100 teenage boys what would make them happy and the majority would answer “playing online video games all day”. The phrase “all day” is important here. Research shows that most teenagers play on average 3 – 5 hours a day and they would like to play even more! Scientists claim that online gaming addiction is nearly as dangerous as a drug addiction and has consequences of its own both in the social and the psychological life of the teenager. There were always students that dropped out of school because they didn’t like it and they weren’t interested in a future career but nowadays, dropping out of school is clearly correlated with the amount of hours teenagers play each day and with the absence of social activities outside school.

1. Teenage girls are not interested in online gaming at all. 2. Online gaming is the most dangerous addiction. 3. Online gaming addiction results in social and psychological problems. 4. Teenagers that quit school due to gaming addiction don’t care about a career.

This is a paragraph taken from a text talking about online gaming addiction. We will use this paragraph as we would a whole text for convenience. So, we have done our skimming in the text and our underlining and we move on straight to the statements. Let’s read the first one:

1. Teenage girls are not interested in online gaming at all.
Since we know that the statements follow the order of the text we will find this answer at the beginning of the paragraph. So, what do you think it is? T, F, NG? Have a guess! The text doesn’t say that girls are not interested at all, we don’t know that. It says that it is mainly boys, this is the majority, but we don’t know anything about girls. So, it is….. NG!

Let’s go to the next statement:2. Online gaming is the most dangerous addiction.
As you see, we’ve already underlined the word “dangerous” and this will help us locate the answer in the text. So, you should read this part of the text above that contains this word a little bit more carefully. [Scientists claim that online gaming addiction is nearly as dangerous as a drug addiction and has consequences of its own both in the social and the psychological life of the teenager.] Now, what do you think this statement is? T, F, or NG? It says it is dangerous but not as dangerous as a drug addiction. They are close, but not as dangerous yet. it is nearly as dangerous as taking drugs. It cannot be T because it is not the most dangerous addiction; it cannot be NG as the text clearly states that it is dangerous, so it is F.

Ok, now let’s move on to the next statement:3. Online gaming addiction results in social and psychological problems.
We will find the answer after the previous one since they follow the order of the text. We’ve already underlined important key-words: [and has consequences of its own both in the social and the psychological life of the teenager.] Ok, what is it? It is T. The consequences of this addiction are both social and psychological in nature.

And now the last one:4. Teenagers that quit school due to gaming addiction don’t care about a career.
Let’s read the last section a little bit better: [There were always students that dropped out of school because they didn’t like it and they weren’t interested in a future career but nowadays, dropping out of school is clearly correlated with the amount of hours teenagers play each day and with the absence of social activities outside school.] What do you think it is? Those of you who answered NG are right!! Why? Because it doesn’t say anywhere that teens that suffer from gaming addiction don’t care about a future career. This is T only for children that quit school because they don’t like it but we don’t know about gaming teens. It may be T for some of them but we don’t know anything about it. Some may be interested in a career, too; we just don’t know it. So, it is NG.

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